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Today is Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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We enter the round robin phase of the ISHL Playoffs. Games may end in a tie.
Print your names legibly on the score sheet. The league is having trouble deciphering names scratched on the sheets.
Delayed Off-Sides Situations
Situation 41
The puck is shot by an attacking player from the neutral Zone into a corner with a teammate off-side (non-intentional situation). The off-side player continues toward the corner in an obvious attempt to play the loose puck. A defending player is slightly closer to the puck and it appears that he will get to
the puck before the attacking player. Should the Linesman continue to delay the off-side call?
No. He should stop the play immediately. Rule Reference 626(d).
As a general rule, when one or more off-side players decline to turn immediately and go back to the blue line to “tag up” and instead continue in pursuit of the puck, play should be stopped immediately. The potential for unnecessary body contact should not be allowed in a situation where an infraction (off-sides) has already occurred. However, there are exceptions to this general rule. If it is apparent that a defending player will reach a loose puck well ahead of any off-side attacking player and will have a reasonable chance to advance the puck out of his Defending
Zone, or if a defending player already has possession of the puck with a similar reasonable chance to advance the puck, play should be permitted to continue. But, where there is any doubt this will occur, the Linesman is expected to stop play immediately.
May a goal ever be allowed during the course of a delayed offside?
No. Rule Reference 626(d).
The attacking team caused the puck to enter the end zone illegally, therefore no goal may be scored while the delayed off-side is in effect. Even if the defending team shoots, passes or deflects the puck into its own goal, a goal may not be allowed.
Situation 43
During a delayed off-side (non-intentional situation) the attacking team is allowed to completely clear the Attacking Zone to nullify the delayed off-side infraction. Must all offside players make skate contact with the Neutral Zone (white part) or the blue line to satisfy this condition?
The blue line only. Rule Reference 626(d).
For the purposes of this rule, the off-side players in the Attacking Zone must only make skate contact with the blue line even though, with the puck in the Attacking Zone, the blue line is considered to be a part of the Attacking Zone. The interpretation is based on the ease of identifying the blue line on the part of players and Officials. Also, by making skate
contact with the line, players are merely required to establish an on-side skate position which would have applied when the puck originally entered the Attacking Zone.
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